- Hi, I'm James Wamser.InDesign has so many features for boththe pre-press and creative professional,but the question is,are you taking advantage of all of them?In this course, we will take a look athow to create documents correctly for commercial printing,saving you both time and money.We will also look at how to use multiple page-sizeswhen creating documents with various folds in mind,along with perfect bound catalogs and magazines.I will show you how to create PDFs based onindustry standards and the differences between the settings.

Live Preflight can prevent costly mistakesif you have all the correct settings in place.We will look at how to create, import, and exportPreflight settings.I've been working in the commercial printing industryfor over twenty years and teaching InDesignto pre-press and creative professionals since Version 1.0.So if you're ready, let's get started with InDesign CS5,Print Production Guidelines.

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4/21/2011

InDesign CS5: Print Production Guidelines goes over the common issues that arise when preparing InDesign documents for printing and shows how to tweak PDF and document settings to ensure the perfect print. The course shows how to avoid mistakes by preparing documents correctly upfront, covering document construction, layout, ink management settings, and output options. Prepress processes in Acrobat are also covered, including accurate soft proofing and packaging in the PDF/X formats. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Understanding facing pages versus non-facing pages

Creating a gatefold layout

Loading and embedding profiles

Understanding overprint vs. knockout

Understanding mixed inks and registration

Setting up multiple versions of a document with conditional text and GREP